Drug Dealers' Secrets Revealed in Justice Department Reports

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Why bother nothings ever going to get better. Things will always keep getting worse until the end of humanity. They tried with gentrification. All that did was spread it everywhere. Just give up and move to the mountains. Idiots

Me of IL 1:19AM April 26, 2011

Crackheads and substance brought
into the schools is the most direct
way of educating people about drugs
and alcohol>

karl anglin of CA 2:47PM December 12, 2009

I've paid my price for my view of "mind-altering recreational pursuit's"!I believe in my heart and soul that EVERYONE know's when you go to sleep and when you wake up there is and alway's has been a few thing's that remain true to all of us...Right and wrong and the consequence's of each individual's choice of these I believe is one of these truism's..However,for our or any govt. to deny their "consequence's" of their choice's in this pursuit to "protect" us is absurd!Prohibition has NEVER worked and never will.It is way past time to help our people and our goverment to come to the obvious conclusion THIS DON'T WORK NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edward Corey Jr. of OH 1:21PM September 09, 2009

The comments left by those before me are right on the money. The masses of American citizens who agree with these positions need to embrace their voice as a citizen. Too many of us have ignored our voice against the propaganda shoved down our throats all our lives. Please write a letter to your representatives, to the president, to the newspaper. There is hope for this country.

William of NV 10:08PM July 29, 2009

I am 56 years old, all of my life this nation has been engaged in a war against its own citizens under the guise of a "war on drugs". The government has spent over a trillion dollars on this folly. It has destroyed homes and families, it has reduced tax revenue by imprisoning working people and raised the cost of government by huge amounts by incarceration costs.
A stupider, more worthless policy could not have been deliberately created I am quite sure. I would like to have a government that is reasonable, trustworthy and inexpensive, the drug war precludes all of these attributes.
We cannot help our nation by destroying the lives of its citizens. All pyschoactive drugs should be legal for use by adults who attend a class describing the side-effects and any other obvious dangers as well as signing a waiver resolve everyone other than themselves of any liabilities. Drugs should be regulated for purity and should be taxed and sold through licensed sellers. Sales to minors should incur fines, possible jail time and revocation of licenses.
Such drugs were legal in this country until the madness of the 20th century and its yellow journalism scapegoated minorities and others for purposes of private agendas.Drugs were never criminalized because of harm, they were criminalized to make the laws tools of control over minorities and other groups feared or exploited by the ruling class.
We no longer have the economic luxury of imprisoning everyone we don't like. Lets clear out the political prisoners and make room for violent and dangerous criminals and lets allow all our citizens the freedom our founding fathers enjoyed.
Prohibition will always fail, lets make prohibition illegal and lets get this country back on its feet again.

Barry McCaffrey of DC 10:22AM June 24, 2009

My problem is with the current status of drug legislation which has resulted in the corruption of all levels of American society.
We point fingers at countries south of our border and observe that every level of government seems to be cozy with one gang or another.
We should get off the moral(?) high ground and start looking in our own back yard. (What was that Biblical verse about the mote in our own eye?)
People, even in our prisons, still have access to drugs and prison employees have admit that the gangs are in control there. Obviously, many people are being paid to look the other way.
If drugs were legal and controlled and the profit were removed would there be so many gangs? Would gang crime in the streets diminish? Would there be fewer crimes by desperate addicts?
Most of us know local elected officials who had been caught using drugs and have pondered that their involvement probably is much deeper than that.
Police corruption by drug money is so endemic that communities have disbanded their vice squads because every one of them has succumbed to the corruption that they are paid to stop. Vice cops often have a lavish lifestyle. We should have known Bernie Kerrick was corrupt - he came from vice.
Several presidents have been rumored to have been a part of this. What does this portend concerning the rest of our national 'leaders'?
Our own CIA and armed forces have been caught several times smuggling drugs into the US for sale to our citizens - this did not stop with Viet Nam (how do we imagine our service men got the drugs over there, anyway?) Remember the crashed plane that was coming home from Iraq with dead soldiers, but when the casket opened during the crash it was loaded with drugs?
Think of all the lawyers being paid and all the extra prisons and the illegals finding it worth their while to cross borders at risk of their own lives. Think of destroyed lives before they'd barely started due to a dumb rebellious decision in youth. Think of family savings wiped out and homes being lost to protect children from their own rash stupidity.
By now most of us are privy to the findings that the part of our brains that deals with judgment and decision making is not fully developed until we are in our 20's, sometimes late into our 20's.
Consider kids born addicted and all the broken relationships.
Drugs, in the current US system, take a terrible toll on society and cost the taxpayer much more than a more reasonable approach would. The only reason that we do not have a more sane approach is that many who try to brainwash the public about the 'immorality' of trying something different are benefiting from the current approach.
Every European country that has tried the 'American' approach to drugs has discarded it because it does not work.
There is something terribly wrong with US society, that our people choose outdated and failed platitudes over evidence that lies before their very eyes.

Joan Dalton 11:05AM June 19, 2009

It's just incredible that, in spite of the huge numbers of Americans in favor of legalization, marijuana continues to be classified a class 1 narcotic, and is treated, in many places, as if it were as dangerous as methamphetamine. I'm convinced, in light of such idiocy, that there must be so much money in keeping it illegal, the powers to be cannot afford to decriminalize or legalize pot. Because surely these people aren't so moronically stupid as to believe their own drivel about pot's "dangers"?

william of GA 9:46PM June 18, 2009

I agree there will always be drug users, just as there will always be alcohol and tobacco users.
However, over the last 30 years we have seen dramatic decrease in use of, and attitudes about, tobacco and alcohol.
This proves education and societal pressures are the key.
Furthermore, as alcohol prohibition proved, when a society criminalizes personal choices respect for all laws is diminished.

jam of GA 9:22AM June 18, 2009

Drugs are addictive and harmful to the body. I think it's best to do some meditation to get the 'high' that one always craves for. (As one poster mentioned, 'naturally hardwired in the brain). I did the Art of Living course which taught me how to use the breath to be naturally happy and peaceful. Check it out takeabreathdc.org

shan of DC 3:49PM June 17, 2009